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 التحية للرفاق القبارصة
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أعلنت اليوم نتائج انتخابات رئاسة الجمهورية في قبرص
وفاز مرشح الحزب الشيوعي الذي قاد تحالفاً عريضاً شمل
كل القوى الديمقراطية بنسبة 53%.
التحية والتهنئة للرفاق القبارصة
جــمـــا ل الـــديــن بـــلال
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Re: التحية للرفاق القبارصة (Re: Adil Osman)
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Communist Christofias wins Cyprus presidential vote
Michele Kambas and Dina Kyriakidou , Reuters
Published: Sunday, February 24, 2008
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Communist party leader Demetris Christofias won presidential elections in Cyprus on Sunday and agreed immediately to meet the head of the island's breakaway Turkish-Cypriot community to revive reunification efforts.
The Mediterranean island's partition along ethnic lines is an obstacle to Turkey's bid to join the European Union, and a source of contention between NATO allies Turkey and Greece.
Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat called Christofias to congratulate him on his win and they agreed to meet "at the earliest possible date," Talat's spokesman said. A spokesman for Christofias confirmed the call but said no date had been set.
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Newly-elected President of Cyprus Demetris Christofias waves to supporters in Nicosia February 24, 2008. Communist leader Christofias won Cyprus presidential elections on Sunday, official results showed, as his right-wing rival Ioannis Kassoulides conceded defeat. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis
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The island has been split along ethnic lines since 1974 when Turkey invaded after a brief Greek-inspired coup. Reunification efforts broke down in 2004 when Greek Cypriots rejected a U.N. plan and a divided Cyprus joined the EU soon after.
Ankara's EU entry negotiations have been partly suspended because of the deadlock over Cyprus. The EU recognizes the Greek-Cypriot government in the south, where voting took place on Sunday.
After the vote, thousands poured into the streets waving red party banners and Cypriot flags and drove around honking horns. Christofias won 53.36 of the vote and right-wing rival Ioannis Kassoulides garnered 46.64 percent and conceded defeat.
CLIMATE IMPROVES
Analysts said the election would improve the climate between the two sides of the decades-old dispute, which has brought NATO members Greece and Turkey close to war a number of times.
"A moderate pro-solution candidate has won, he stands for a different approach for the negotiation, a direct contact approach with the Turkish Cypriots...and he will deliver on this," said political analyst Hubert Faustmann.
Christofias will be Cyprus's first communist president and the only one in the 27-member EU. Although proud to be a communist, he says he will leave the free market economy alone.
His AKEL party boasts busts of Lenin and red flags at its headquarters but it also owns a number of large businesses on the island. It has been instrumental in electing presidents but had never fielded its own candidate.
The surprise elimination of incumbent President Tassos Papadopoulos in the first round on February 17 raised hopes the Greek Cypriots might be ready for a deal. Papadopoulos had led the opposition to the U.N. plan in 2004.
Christofias, who won the vote after securing support from Papadopoulos's party, favors a structured approach to fresh talks through the United Nations.
Turkish Cypriots, who have watched wealthier Greek Cypriots enjoy the benefits of EU membership alone, welcomed the result, saying they were keen for negotiations to re-start.
Initial reaction from Turkey was lukewarm.
"We are a little cautious at the moment," a Foreign Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We have to see whether Christofias gave promises to Papadopoulos or not. (Christofias) will face a sincerity test."
(Additional reporting by Simon Bahceli and Stelios Orphanides, and Zerin Elci in Ankara; writing by Dina Kyriakidou; editing by Stephen Weeks)
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Re: التحية للرفاق القبارصة (Re: ELTOM)
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الأعزاء
عادل عثمان
محمد القاضي
و نصر
تشكروا على الاضافات والتعريف
بالرئيس الجديد لقبرص اليونانية
ديمتريس كريستوفيوس
والتعريف ببرنامجه لتوحيد
جزيرة قبرص .
لكم التحايا التقدير
جمال الدين بلال
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Re: التحية للرفاق القبارصة (Re: ELTOM)
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بــــنــــيــــوتــــي
ما دفعني للكتابة عن فوز الشيوعيين القبارصة ذكريات عزيزة
مع صديق قبرصي سوداني اســـمــه بــــنـــيـــوتـــي.
التقيت به في بورتسودان في نهاية الخمسينات من القرن الماضي.
كان مشهوراً جداً فقد كان يلعب حارس مرمرى لفريق حي العرب- سوكورتا -
ومن ثم انتقل لمدينة الخرطوم حيث سكن بحي الزهور هو ووالدته
واخوته.
حدثني عن علاقته بالفكر الثوري فقد كان خاله مناضل شرس في مصر
وقد تربى هو _ بنيوتي- على يد المناضلين، صلاح حسين الذي إغتالته
أيادي الإقطاع أبان عهد عبد الناصر وزوجته المناضلة المشهورة
شاهندة مقلد
عمل في السودان مع اتحاد العمال وكنا نشاهده يوزع جريدة الطليعة
العمالية وكثيراً ما شاهدناه يقود المظاهرات في شوارع الخرطوم
في الفترة الأكتوبرية.
شاهدنه اَخر مرة في زواجة، اعتقد أنه تزوج في بداية السبعينات
حيث تزوج حفيدة القبرصية الشهيرة كاترينا وقد كرمه اتحاد الشباب السوداني
باشراك فرقة الفنون السوفييتية التي كانت في زيارة للسودان
لتقديم فواصل في ليلة زواجه.
رجع بنيوتي لقبرص وظل صديقاً وفياً للشعب السوداني
حيث قدم كثير من الخدمات لجميع السودانين الذين يتلقاهم
في مطار لارنكا حيث يعمل هناك.
مرة أخرى التحية والتقدير للرفاق القبارصة والتحية لـبنيوتي
جمال الدين بلال
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A new will in Nicosia
By electing Demetris Christofias as president, Greek Cypriots have taken an implicit step towards the island's reunification. Will they go the distance?
Helena Smith
The Guardian
February 25, 2008
Finally, after five bleak years of scaremongering, Turk-bashing and prevarication, the Greeks Cypriots have a new president. Demetris Christofias, the burly Soviet-educated "man of the people" has pulled off the double feat of becoming the war-divided island's first communist leader in history and the 27-nation EU bloc's first communist head of state
Barely had the veteran 61-year-old politician digested the scale of his victory over his conservative rival, Ioannis Kasoulides, than tributes to his ability to re-unite Cyprus started pouring in. From the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, who spoke of "a renewed sense of hope", to European Commission head, José Manuel Barroso who saw the election result as the best opportunity yet "to overcome the longstanding stalemate", a wave of rare optimism and excitement has suddenly exploded on the Cyprus scene
Even the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat, wasted no time enthusing that a solution to the 34-year-old division of the island was, at last, in sight. It was feasible, he said, that, with the moderate Christofias on the opposite side of the negotiating table, this fractured corner of the Levant could be put back together again "by the end of 2008"
That Cyprus is at a crucial turning point cannot be denied. The Greeks Cypriots, the island's majority population, have clearly understood that time is an enemy; that with each passing year, the sandbagged, bullet-riddled, UN-patrolled "dead zone" that has separated them from Turkish Cypriots since the summer of 1974, becomes ever more permanent, a grim reminder of a war lost and more than a third of their land taken with it
More than ever, on both sides of the inhospitable divide, the citizens of Cyprus are tired. And in the case of the Greek Cypriots, who, nearly four years ago, so roundly rejected a UN reunification plan at the behest of the now-ousted nationalist leader Tassos Papadopoulos, there is clearly a desire to be given a second chance
In a year free of elections, or any other potentially costly political event in Nicosia, Athens or Ankara, 2008 offers an excellent opportunity to break the deadlock. Because of his AKEL party's traditionally good ties with the trade union movement in Cyprus' breakaway northern republic, Demetris Christofias has better relations with the Turkish Cypriots than any other Greek Cypriot politician
But the communist will have his work cut out for him. Within hours of his victory, Turkey, which bankrolls the pariah state, was quick to point out that AKEL had won the poll with the strategic support of Papadopoulos' no-compromise DIKO party, which necessarily raised the question of whether it would pursue the same hardline policies with "a different face"
After decades of false hopes, diplomats in Nicosia say both the UN and Brussels have no desire to go on "talking about talks". This time, they want to see a real commitment by both sides to get into the substance of the problem before they commit to funding further costly negotiations. Most agree that it is now up to the Greek Cypriots to make the first gesture - one that would restore their credibility and demonstrate that, after five wasted years, they truly want a solution
Christofias would do well to move ahead with the implementation of a confidence-building measure, such as consenting to demilitarise the ceasefire line that cuts though Nicosia. On either side of this ever-septic strip soldiers still face each other over gun barrels. The potential for it all to turn nasty is never far away
Of course, there are still major obstacles to overcome. The issues of governance, security, territory and property remain paramount in the quest for a workable "bi-zonal, bi-communal federation" on the island. And much will also depend on Turkey, which maintains some 40,000 troops in the north and whose own EU ambitions have been directly linked with success on Cyprus
But if a solution is reached, if Christofias and Talat can bite the bullet and accept a compromise, Cyprus may yet emerge as a model of co-habitation and co-existence between two ethnic peoples in one of the world's more incendiary flashpoints
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ELTOM
Adil Osman
Nasr
Elmoiz Abunura
Mohamed Omer
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
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